Tag: telescopes

Princeton part of $40 million Simons Observatory

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PRINCETON RESEARCHERS will have an integral role in the Simons Observatory, a new astronomy facility in South America recently established with a $38.4 million grant from the Simons Foundation. The observatory will investigate cosmic microwave Continue Reading →

Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe

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Author: Eileen Reeves Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Professor of Comparative Literature Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways Continue Reading →

The Planet Hunters

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From Gáspár Bakos’ desk at Princeton, he can see everything that happens at his telescopes on three continents. He can see wild burros nuzzle at the cables in Chile, warthogs wander by in Namibia, and Continue Reading →

Telescopes take the universe’s temperature

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Two telescopes on a Chilean mountaintop are poised to tell us much about the universe in its infancy. They are surveying the faint temperature fluctuations left over from the explosive birth of the universe, with Continue Reading →

Inventions Bridge the Gap between lab and marketplace

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The college experience often involves at least one road trip, but most students do not bring along their faculty adviser. But last spring, two graduate students crammed into a rented Chevy Impala with Professor Mark Continue Reading →